Improvement in combined clothes-whisks and hat-brushes



A. M. RICHMOND.

Improvement in Cembined Clothes-Whisk & Hat-Brus h.

Patefited April 23, I872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARGHIBALD M. RICHMOND, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED CLOTHES-WHISKS AND HAT-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,090, dated Apri123, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARCHIBALD M. RIGH- MOND, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Clothes and Hat Brush; and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, representing, in perspective, the combined clothes and hat brush as I. propose to construct it.

My invention consists in a combined clothes and hat brush, in which the end of the handle most remote from the whisk part of the brush is enlarged and covered in whole or in part by bristles, hair, or plush, to form a hat-brush at that end.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with referenceto the drawing.

The whisk-end A of the combined brush may be made of broom-corn in any of the usual wellknown Ways. B is a handle, by preference of wood, on which the whisk-end A is wrought, or to which it is attached. The outer end 0 G of this handle is enlarged,and to it is attached, in any well-known way, the hat-brush D, which may be made of bristles, hair, or plush-cloth, or of any other similarly soft and pliable material. The portion 0 of the handle may be in one and the same piece with that of B. In the drawing I have shown the hat-brush part D as covering the end and a small portion of the sides of the enlarged portion 0 of the handle only; but the bristle, hair, or plush portion of the brush may cover or occupy more or less of the handle, but be confined to the handle only, and not attached to the whisk A. If preferred, the bristles, hair, or plush may be first attached to a back of any suitable material, and this back fastened to the handle, all of which modes of manufacture are obvious to any mechanician. And in stead of the hat-portion of the brush being made entirely of one of the substances or materials named, it may be composed of two or more ofthem properly disposed on the handle,

so as to be used for separate purposes or at dif- Witnesses:

A. B. STOUGHTON, EDMUND MASSON. 

